[Bug 32922] Applications menu entries break HIG

AlanTam Tam at SiuLung.com
Mon Mar 13 15:46:44 UTC 2006


Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32922

Comment:
When does Ubuntu main come with two applications with the same function?
I can only think of Evolution and Thunderbird.

Since this is rare, I think most users (especially non-experts) would
not expect to see "Alacarte Menu Editor", since they only want a Menu
Editor, no matter what it is. It is simply distracting. Why not say
"Gcalctool Calculator"?

For experts, they will know what it refers when they look at the menu,
e.g. they will know "default" movie player from Ubuntu is Totem.

I am not proposing a scheme where all movie players are called "Media
Player", but that only the default one with the module-name dropped. So
GIMP is called "Image Editor", and if you really go to install TuxPaint,
then call it "TuxPaint Image Editor".

If you support for Ubuntu, I think you know what is "Movie Player", if
the user tells you this is the whole name. Surely, at any time you can
Help->About to get its real full name.




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